26-30 Indonesia Facts
26. Small, hobbit-like people existed in Indonesia around 700,000 years ago. – Source
27. 1816 was called “The Year Without a Summer” after the eruption of Mount Tambora in Indonesia. Crop failure forced Joseph Smith to leave Vermont, and his journeys resulted in “The Book of Mormon,” the dreary rain in Switzerland drove Mary Shelley to stay indoors, where she wrote “Frankenstein.” – Source
28. In 1674, Manhattan was traded from the Dutch to the English for Run Island, an island in Indonesia which is now nearly uninhabited. – Source
29. The first settlers of Madagascar arrived from Indonesia several hundred years before the Bantu people of Southeastern Africa came to the island. As a result, the people of Madagascar have some physical features characteristic of Southeast Asians. – Source
30. People born on the island of Bali, Indonesia are traditionally given one of four names based on their birth order within the family. The first child is called ‘oldest’, the second ‘middle’, etc. The cycle repeats itself after the fourth, where the fifth child is called ‘oldest again’. – Source
31-35 Indonesia Facts
31. Coelacanths, an order of fish found off the coast of East Africa and Indonesia, are the most endangered order of animal in the world and are more closely related to humans than to all other fish except lungfish. – Source
32. Indonesia is having a problem in which teenagers are increasingly turning to prostitution, with many becoming pimps and selling their friends off for sex, in order to “catch up” with the tech-savvy Indonesian middle class. – Source
33. The 2004 Tsunami actually helped to end 29 years of war in Aceh region of Indonesia. – Source
34. Half the world’s population lives in just six countries: China, India, the USA, Brazil, Pakistan, and Indonesia. – Source
35. Drunk Driving is legal in many countries, including Indonesia. – Source
36-40 Indonesia Facts
36. There is an abandoned church shaped like a massive clucking chicken in the jungles of Indonesia. – Source
37. In 2012, a new giant species of wasp was discovered in Indonesia that no one has ever seen alive. – Source
38. Indonesia is one of the countries with the highest rates of the female in management positions. – Source
39. Indonesia is one of the only 5 countries where suicide rate for women is higher than men. Other countries are China, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Iraq. – Source
40. The film Schindler’s List was banned in Indonesia because it is a “Film that is sympathetic to the Jewish cause”. – Source
41-44 Indonesia Facts
41. Proboscis monkeys are known in Indonesia as “Dutch Monkeys” because Indonesians remarked that the Dutch colonizers often had similarly large bellies and noses. – Source
42. Jakarta, Indonesia has ~30 million people and no subway system. Due to gridlock and little traffic rule enforcement, there are freelance traffic cops. When one accidentally caused an explosive accident, the governor moved to ban the freelancers, instead of improving traffic conditions. – Source
43. There is a custom of Muslims having sex with strangers on “Sex Mountain” in Java, Indonesia. – Source
44. The world’s most active city on Twitter is Jakarta, the capital city of Indonesia. – Source
I am a simple Indonesian… I see Indonesia I wkwkwk.
Joseph Smith found the gold plates and translated the Book of Mormon. The way you worded it made it seem like he made the whole thing up and just wrote it down.
Thats exactly what he did.
The most important fact about Indonesia is the beautiful and natural of their nature that becomes a good fact.